Auger-handle



(No Model.)

- G. G. DUTTON & J. LEE.

AUGER HANDLE.

Patented M213 5, 1891.

@Xhtwmms W 4% %W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE G. DIITTON AND JAMES LEE, OF CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

AUG ER-HAN DLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,867, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed February 15 1890. Serial No. 3440,5373. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE G. DUTTON and JAMES LEE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Chester, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Auger-I-Iandleaof which the follow- .ing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention pertains to an improvement in auger-handles; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional view of our auger-handle, the auger being broken away. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional View of the same on line 00 as. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the block.

The object of our invention is to produce a removable handle for angers adapted to bits of different size, which may be readily tightened and rigidly secured in place or released and disconnected, whereby greater efficiency is attained at comparatively little cost, and in all respects a more useful tool is produced.

In the embodiment of our invention we provide in the Wall in opposite sides of the cylindric casting Avertically-aligned and square apertures B, in which in making connection of the parts the shank of the bit is secured. The cylindric casting A has also formed in one end thereof a female screw-thread C, and in the end opposite thereto the handle-socket D for reception of the wooden handle D, the socket terminating in transverse wall E.

Handle F consists of a casting having a threaded extension f, adapted to a corresponding female screw 12 on the inner periphery of a thimble or cap I), said thimble or cap having its outer periphery screwthreaded at b and designed to fit in internal screw-thread O in the end of casting A. Projecting through a recess in the end of thimble b is headed pin a, one of its headed ends resting in recess a in thimble b. The sliding clamp 17, having vertical notch d, is provided with pin-recess e, extending slightly beyond the center thereof for reception of headed pin a, which loosely fits therein, the sliding clamp being of rectangular form and prevented from rotating by means of inner vertical walls 9, cast integral with cylindric casting A.

Thus constructed our auger-handle may be applied to bits of different size and be readily adjusted, and in all respects a very complete auger-handle is produced.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an auger-handle, the combination of the casting and the handles, one of which handles has one of its ends set in a socket and the other handle having on its screw-threaded end an internal and external screw-threaded thimble designed to fit in a corresponding female screw-thread in the recess in one end of the casting, said thimble having projected through a recess in one end thereof a headed pin, the head of said pin engaging an ap-- proximately-T- shaped slot in the sliding clamp, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE'G. DUTTON. J AMES LEE.

\Vitnesses:

GEo. W. SHEAFF, JULIUS A. DUTTON. 

